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Release year: 2002

Storyline

Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.

Top credits

Directors

Denzel Washington

Writers

Antwone Fisher

Cast

Denzel Washington — Dr. Jerome Davenport
Derek Luke — Antwone Fisher
Joy Bryant — Cheryl Smolley
Malcolm David Kelley — Antwone Fisher Age 7

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Did you know

• Antwone Fisher was working as a security guard at Sony Studios. Studio executives began hearing about his life story and offered to buy the rights. But Fisher refused, insisting that he write the screenplay himself. Fisher wrote 41 drafts, until he sold it to 20th Century Fox.

• Denzel Washington agreed to star in the movie mainly because he knew it was the only way it would get financed.

• De'aundre Bonds was initially given a role in the film. On the night that he learned he was awarded the role, he attended a family celebration, and was involved in an altercation with his aunt's boyfriend. The altercation ended with Bonds stabbing the man to death. He was sentenced to eleven years in prison.